Two events have purged my life of almost all of the unusual decorating items I had accumulated over the years.
1) Getting married.
2) Buying and decorating a home with said spouse.

I still have a few things but most have been relegated to either my office or the basement. Granted, Mrs. biscuit has some unusual things of her own, but I suppose they're less tacky than what I came with.

My house is furnished in a low key manner after having been raised by the knick knack queen. However, I will try and get some photos edited of my three brother-in-laws houses. They are all Arab and the houses are pretty much decorated in that fashion.

"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?"Jeremiah 22:16

My house is furnished in a low key manner after having been raised by the knick knack queen. However, I will try and get some photos edited of my three brother-in-laws houses. They are all Arab and the houses are pretty much decorated in that fashion.

Does posting a topographical map on the wall as a focus point of the room count as an unusual home decor approach?

A number of years ago, I was thinking that if I had a place with a rec room that I'd go down to the map store, buy a whole bunch of local USGS 7.5 minute topographic maps and use them as wallpaper on its 'major' wall. Mosaiced together, I can't help but think that that would be a stunning bit of decor, especially if the house was in a geographically interesting metro area, and at about $7-10/sheet, pretty economical, too!

My uncle, who has since retired from the wine business, has a similar wine cork board underneath his dart board to protect vintage plaster walls from dart throwers who had too much wine.

I still have a bachelor room, where a Rush calendar and a couple sports pictures are hung. I also have an old bowling pin on display and some Hungarian soccer flags.
The garage has beer and sports poster hanging in it as well.

You get all squeezed up inside/Like the days were carved in stone/You get all wired up inside/And it's bad to be alone

You can go out, you can take a ride/And when you get out on your own/You get all smoothed out inside/And it's good to be alone
-Peart

I have been a collector for too long, so I have some quirky folk art. Probably the most colorful is a carved wooden Balinese dragon hanging from the ceiling. I also have antique Burmese temple carvings, a pair of cast iron Burmese Fu Dogs (quite large and heavy), and a lot of pottery. I also have some quirky modern paintings that befit my liking of certain more bizarre cartoons (Ren and Stimpy, and my absolute favorite, Invader Zim). The one large painting is by a Sacramento artist with some very Invader Zim-esque (or maybe Quisp cereal ) characters superimposed on the scene.

Our kitchen cabinet doors are covered with European road maps and we have a book case in the kids room covered with world maps. I used to have a chair made out of old skis. The spouse got rid of that quickly (to her credit, it was incredibly uncomfrotable). We also have a 2 inch ledge around our kitchen where the wine corks go.

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor

Nothing too weird in my home. My husband is a minimalist (every wall of his dorm room was bare! I'd never seen such a thing!), and I have to twist his arm to put up the few things we've got.

Interesting decor elsewhere, that comes to mind, is at my friend's house in high school. Spent a lot of time in her finished basement that had a chair rail all around. And standing upright, lined up on top of all of the chair rail, were her dad's duck calls. There were hundreds of them, and he was very particular about how they were lined up. One wild night a bunch accidently got knocked down and my friend flipped out.

SOME say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Ahh.....

Does my key chain with a large rubber chicken count? I have three pieces of antique art in my house and the rest is newer stuff.

RJ, where's the pool table and felt covered bar with the painting of the dogs playing poker? Talk about a bachelor pad, it must drive ZG nuts?

“The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of non-violence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- See more at: http://www.thekingcenter.org/king-ph....r7W02j3S.dpuf

At the moment, "decor" of any kind for me is limited to storing my clothes mostly in those extra large ziploc bags instead of a dresser (a few things hang on a hook on the back of the door). When we get tired of the clutter, we throw a few things out and rearrange the grouping of bags on the floor. Occasionally, they get rearranged spontaneously when some huge roach gets into the room and we chase it about with murder in mind.

...RJ, where's the pool table and felt covered bar with the painting of the dogs playing poker? Talk about a bachelor pad, it must drive ZG nuts?

No pool table and no painting of poker playing dogs. I think the only thing that drives ZG nuts are the mustard colored walls in my office/third bedroom. She can add to the list, though. Which I'm sure she will.